Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born  October 21, 1772 in Devon, England. 

Coleridge was one of the founders of the Romantic movement in England. 

In all his roles, as poet, social critic, literary critic, theologian, and psychologist, Coleridge expressed a profound concern with elucidating an underlying creative principle that is fundamental to both human beings and the universe as a whole. To Coleridge, imagination is the archetype of this unifying force because it represents the means by which the twin human capacities for intuitive, non-rational understanding and for organizing and discriminating thought concerning the material world are reconciled. It was by means of this sort of reconciliation of opposites that Coleridge attempted, with considerable success, to combine a sense of the universal and ideal with an acute observation of the particular and sensory in his own poetry and in his criticism.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Poet, Philosopher, Critic | Britannica

England has issued just one stamp celebrating Coleridge, (that I could find) and a rather bland one at that. In 2020 Royal Mail issued a set of stamps featuring Romantic Poets producing one of my least favourite stamp sets. Romantic poets were alive with ideas, love of nature and vibrant imagery. The resulting stamps were static black and white images that were unexciting, the antithesis of the Romantic movement. 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge “Frost at Midnight”
2020 United Kingdom set Romantic Poets
Designed by The Chase

The Romantics were about individualism, movement, nature and an exploration of man’s position in the world. They were alive with emotion. Designer company The Chase have created a lot of excellent stamps, but they missed the mark on this set. If you ignore the subject matter – the Romantics – the stamps are technically good, but as a lover of Romantic poets, this one misses on every level. 

My old Romantic Poetry prof would not be amused. 

Last year award winning author Ursula K. Le Guin.